Saturday, January 12th, 2008
I was sitting here last night, when I noticed that my new blog here finally had a Google PageRank. I was pretty happy about that, but there was one tiny problem. The PageRank is a 1.
Remember back when I told you that I switched this blog over to a new domain name? Well, back then, this blog (on the old domain) had a PageRank of 5. I did a simple 301 redirect for the entire blog in the .htaccess file, pointing it to this new domain. I figured that the nice PageRank I had earned over the years would follow me to this new domain. Guess not.
I did notice that the Gaulard.com domain still has a PageRank of 5. That’s weird, because all there is over there are a few static pages that never change. So what’s all this about the size of a website, the frequency of updates, etc…? I know of a very specific factor that heavily affects PageRank, but am not ready to share it just yet. I am still doing some research.
I took a look around all my sites. They all pretty much stayed the same, except for one. That one dropped a point, which is disappointing. I looked at a few blogs I know of. One got hit pretty hard and lost 3 points. Man, is this PageRank update about hitting blogs?
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
Network Solutions defends frontrunning-to stop frontrunners
Network Solutions has been heavily criticized for its new policy that automatically registers domains to itself once a user searches for it. The company has now responded, saying that the policy is a “security measure” meant to protect customers from real domain frontrunners.
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of
An overview of professional step-by-step tutorials which can enrich your design skills and improve the quality of your works.
Social Blogging Platform Profy Launches in Alpha
Today, we get a new blogging platform from Russian/San Francisco startup Profy.
Google Processing Over 20 Petabytes of Data Per Day
Google currently processes over 20 petabytes of data per day through an average of 100,000 MapReduce jobs spread across its massive computing clusters.
Understanding Search Engine Penalties
Why is your celebrity blog being penalized? Find out here…
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
101 Ways to Monetize Your Blog (Without Irritating Readers)
Blogging is big business these days, with some bloggers reporting six-figure or even million-dollar incomes. There are a number of ways that these bloggers earn such large paychecks, and the best know how to do it in a way that won’t scare off readers. Check out 101 ways that you can earn money from your blog.
Apple has sold 5 million iPhones
Apple has sold 5 million iPhones, according to 9 to 5 Mac, an Apple rumor site. At the iPhone’s launch, Steve Jobs set a public goal of selling 10 million iPhones — next year. With the iPhone only on sale for six months, that means Apple’s already selling its sleek smartphones at 2008 speed.
Firefox 3.0 Beta 2 Is A Win For Linux
Mozilla has released the latest beta of Firefox 3 today, and the Linux efforts behind it are starting to show even more. This release, being a beta, is surprisingly stable. Here’s the killer that makes this beta release amazing: true GTK support.
Norway mandates use of open formats: HTML, ODF and PDF
Government, state and regional agencies, authorities and services may also publish in other formats, but they must always publish in one of these formats. The decree is retroactive, and by 2014 all documents published prior to this decree must have been converted and made available in one of the three formats.
10 great Web site designs/redesigns of 2007
We pick 10 of our favorite site designs and redesigns of 2007.
8 Bold Predictions on Google’s Next Moves
There’s little doubt that Google Inc. is indeed king of online media. In August 2007 alone, Google captured 57% of worldwide market share among search engines, with more than 37 billion search inquiries. Not surprisingly, this dominance has led to endless rumors about where Google is headed next?
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Matt Cutts 3 Step Process to Building a Really Good Site
This post is a combination of transcribed content from video recorded at a PubCon 2007 evening session that featured Matt Cutts, my organization of that content, and related resource links for websites or articles Matt spoke about during his presentation.
The offices of today’s leading internet companies
Charl’s post showcases some really innovative workspaces at some of the hottest Internet companies today. These workspaces are generally informal and designed to bring people together rather than keep them locked away in their small, grey cubicles.
The Twice Shy Entrepreneur
A number of venture capitalists I’ve spoken with have said that too many “old guard” entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it’s hurting their startups.
Top 10 Worldwide Rising Search Terms - Google
Earlier this week Google released the fastest rising search terms in the US. I have received the fastest rising search terms Globally from Google and there are some interesting conclusions to point out.
Facebook Wakes To Find Its Members Making Money - G-A-S-P!
Looks like Facebook does nont like people making money off their own profiles.
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
I woke up this morning to see that there were no YouTube video ads (or videos, for that matter) being displayed in this blog. I checked my other blog, to see if they were displaying on that one. Nope. I then check Paul’s blog. Nothing there.
I can see the YouTube link, but no videos. Something going on?
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
Google offers API for Outlook migration to Gmail
Google took a giant step on Friday to make it easier for companies to migrate any e-mail system over to Google Apps Gmail by offering an E-mail Migration API targeted at corporate developers and e-mail administrators.
Become an Internet Legend in Your Free Time: Tips from Internet Celebrities
“The Internet moves very fast,” says Gary “Numa Numa” Brolsma. “Your video has to be funny, or get to the point, very quickly. People are clicking all the time. If you don’t hook people in the first 15 seconds, they’ll move on.”
Top 30 websites that still are using tables as layout structure
You won´t believed how many they are. Some of then are your daily web routine. Stop hunting those IE CSS tricks and bring back your Frontpage 98 my friend designer, we are still in web 0.8889
How Top Bloggers Really Promote their Websites
Simple question: “If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?” I posed this very question to a collection of some of the world’s top bloggers and social network marketers…and here’s what they revealed.
15 Unreasonably Useful Websites
A list of 15 websites that are either useful or entertaining.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Why English isn’t the only language you should know
Although English is spoken by almost 500 million people around the world, it is impossible to deny how countries such as China, Japan, Russia and India are becoming increasingly important, both in the world of politics and the world of business. Here are some reasons to expand your horizon and learn a new language.
Google: $500,000,000,000 company by 2010?
At the end of 2009, Microsoft would have a market value of about $405 billion and Google’s would be roughly $370 billion. So Google would surpass Microsoft sometime in 2010. If its stock kept appreciating at 34 percent clip annually compared to Microsoft’s 12.5 percent, Google would finish 2010 with a market value of nearly half a trillion dollars.
Top 50 Fastest Growing Women-Led Companies
With women starting businesses at a faster clip than men, here is a list of the top 50 fastest growing women-led companies. Meet the women behind these high-growth businesses.
The Top Entrepreneurs Under 25 Changing the Face of Business
The goal was to find businesses that demonstrate potential for growth and establish the talent of the savvy young people behind them, possibly identifying the next Mark Zuckerberg (of Facebook fame).
How to save money for 18-25 yr. olds
This recent article ran in the October 29, 2007 version of Newsweek. The article gives easy common sense advice from spending, to building credit, and how to make bank on Roth IRA’s.
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
True Knowledge Launches Natural Language Search Engine
Cambridge, UK based True Knowledge released its natural language search engine into private beta yesterday. Like the much-anticipated Powerset, the company aims to give appropriate answers to natural language queries, even if key query terms are not included in the data being indexed. Current search engines are unable to return appropriate results
Is Facebook Eyeing an Acquisition in China?
A report in a Chinese newspaper today indicates that Facebook may be looking to acquire social networking site Zhanzuo.com. A very rough translation using Google Translate indicates that Zhanzuo has turned down an offer in the $85-100 million range.
Google Only Ahead Of Microsoft In Search: Ballmer
Whilst spruiking the release of Windows Live in Tokyo Thursday, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer told reporters that Google wasn’t ahead of Microsoft in any way online except with search.
YouTube Enhances Video Flagging System
YouTube has announced they have improved their video flagging system. If you ever watch a video that might raise a concern, you can click on a “Flag” link below the video (when on a video page) that will enable you to report the video to a human editor at YouTube.
Just Sell Digg Already, Jay :: Says TechCrunch
Michaeal Arrington gives Advice to Digg: One thing that has become a certainly in our little tech world - a few months can’t go by without rumors surfacing that a sale of Digg is imminent. CEO Jay Adelson and cofounder Kevin Rose are in a perpetual rumor cycle. The problem is, they seem to be the ones at fault for the rumors. The reason?
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Google’s “Nofollow” Rule
The “nofollow” tag, when added to a link, prevents Google from counting the link as such a “recommendation”, thus not providing any search ranking benefits to the site being linked to.
Rumor: Digg close to a $300 million sale
Digg is close to announcing its sale to a major media player for $300 million to $400 million, according to sources close to the company.
Report: Google Organizing Less Than 0.02% of the World’s Information
The later study estimated that between 3,416,281 TB and 5,609,121 TB were produced in 2002, so there was a ~19% annual growth rate between ‘99 and ‘02. Assuming the same growth rate to present, somewhere between 6,869,341 TB and 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006. There were only 1085 Terabytes Organized by Google Last Year.
Facebook to Turn Users Into Endorsers
Facebook now will give advertisers the ability to create their own profile pages on its system that will let users identify themselves as fans of a product.
The Social Enterprise - What Works, and What Doesn’t
Why should enterprises go social, and what are the compelling reasons for adoption?
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Many Consumers Are Unclear What “Online Tracking” Even Means
A study released this week shows that a huge percentage of Americans don’t grasp just how intensively their online habits are tracked, analyzed, and used to serve ads back to them.
Top 10 Events for Bloggers
Blogging can be a lonely business. And if online blogger communities don’t satisfy you desire to mingle, this is a list of the top 10 events in the real world where you can participate in, meet with fellow bloggers, and share experiences.
OpenSocial - What a Difference a Day Makes Google Beats Facebook
Facebook vs Google Open Social
Google Purchases Shortest Domain Name Ever
Google has purchased the shortest possible domain name to make it easier for Chinese users to find Google: g.cn.
Google OpenSocial Now Live!
We’ve been waiting all day for Google’s OpenSocial site to start working, and it has finally happened. The site contains the official OpenSocial API documents, developers blog, featured community gadgets, and featured videos. Unless you’re a developer dying to see the inner workings of the APIs, there isn’t really much new information up there;
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